Matthew Poole and continuators on 2 Chronicles 31:1

1 NOw when all this was finished, all Israel that were present, went out to the cities of Judah, and brake the images in pieces, and cut down the groves, and threw down the high places, and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, until they had utterly destroyed them all. Then all the children of Israel returned every man to his possession into their own cities.

Either 1. In those Cities belonging to Ephraim and Manasseh, which the Kings of Judah had formerly taken from the Kings of Israel. Or, 2. In the Tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh. For although these were a part of Hoshea's Kingdom, yet Hezekiah presumed to do this partly by vertue of the Law of God, to which both Israel and Judah owed Subjection, which commanded the extirpation of these things out of the whole Land of Canaan: Partly by the special Impulse and Direction of Gods Spirit, which sometimes did put persons upon Heroical and Extraordinary Actions not to be drawn into Imitation: And partly because he knew that Hoshea contented himself with the Worship of the Calves, and did not practise that great Idolatry which his Predecessors had used, and therefore would patiently suffer the breaking of these Images of Baal and the things belonging to them; which is all that was done at this time.

Marginal references: Heb. found.; 2 Kin. [illegible: 1+ letters] [illegible: 1 word].; Heb. [illegible: 1 word].; Heb. until to make an end.